The stories in Repairable Men look at the small towns
and rural farms where families stay for generations and newcomers never quite
feel at home. Whether trapped by dead-end work, hostile relatives, or the
troubling legacies of their forebears, John Carr Walker’s characters are seeking
escape, forgiveness, and redemption in the dusty corners of the new American
West.

John Carr Walker exposes his characters' inner lives with stunning surgical precision. The stories in Repairable Men are sharp and terse, stories from an expert teller of tales that cut close to the bone and leave us wanting the next, and the next, and, yes, please, the next.

--Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever

John Carr Walker’s taut, rhythmic prose holds us steady as the danger rises. Here is a young writer to watch: he carries a rich geography in his blood and bones, and the talent to make it burn fiercely on the page.

--Marjorie Sandor, author of Portrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime

John Carr Walker is the real deal. Whether he’s writing about a raisin farmer wondering what it is he’s truly inherited, or a father and son trying to understand not only each other, but themselves, he is writing about all of us.